Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Is God Real or Pretend?–Book Review

My first impression of this book wasn’t great. It looked cheap. You can see the words from the page behind throughout the entire thing. I don’t know if it’s something that will be fixed in future publications or not.

Within the first few pages the main character of the book, Franklin, reveals that there is no such thing as Santa Claus. I don’t know about you but I know in our house Santa Claus is very real! We are a family of firm believers and that includes Anthony and myself. Needless to say, I was not impressed with that. I was glad that this was a book I chose to read on my own for review. I wasn’t sure what the content would be and didn’t just want to hand it over to my children as soon as we got it. What a sad day that would have been! (For the record, Miss K has known how the magic of Santa Claus works for a couple of years now. Miss A just learned this past Christmas season. If Miss H had been the one to read the book she would have been devastated. Anthony and I have a very special way that we go about this subject. Santa Claus IS real. That’s another post for another day.)

So almost immediately I was turned off from this book. It continues on and talks about Franklin’s findings through many different religions and what they believe about God. While I’m sure that much of the information is true, I am somewhat of a skeptic when it comes to any one person or group writing about another’s religion. From personal investigating I know that much of that kind of research is often misconstrued. The author doesn’t always know what they are talking about, only able to draw from word of mouth, things they’ve heard, and possibly a google search. I’m not saying that this is the case with this author. I just know that my particular faith is a very misunderstood religion around the globe and when things are written about my church it is often only partially true or completely untrue.

While the different insights to how different religions perceive God was interesting I wouldn’t say that this is must have book for my library.

**And now you know that even when I get a book (or any product) for review I will always tell you the truth about what I think about it. ;)